The Declaration of Independence

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How was Jefferson influenced by the writings of John Locke and Thomas Paine?

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Thomas Jefferson was influenced by John Locke, a British writer, who taught extensively that people had an inherent natural right at birth. Locke felt that a government should exist to benefit the common people as well as the privileged. Thomas Paine held similar beliefs and wrote in a book called Common Sense that the people also held the inherent right to operate under its own governance and was not to be bound by that of England.

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www.classroom.monticello.org (2007). Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence. (p.1).  Retrieved September 23, 2015.

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